Community Bridges, Inc.

Community Bridges, Inc., a Mesa, Arizona-based tax-exempt nonprofit, acts as a prime contractor and grant recipient delivering behavioral health, substance abuse treatment, and homeless services to federal agencies, with 65% of awards held as prime positions and 35% as sub-awards or sub-recipients. The organization competes predominantly in full-and-open categories without set-aside designations and operates across multiple federal customer agencies, most notably the Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Service, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Community Bridges' federal footprint centers on culturally sensitive integrated behavioral health, substance abuse treatment, and housing-first services for American Indian and Alaska Native communities, homeless individuals and families, and low-income veteran populations. The organization holds a single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Indian Health Service valued at $5.1 million through March 2027, under which it provides residential behavioral health and continuum of care coordination services. Recent prime contract work includes multiple delivery orders from IHS ranging from $70 thousand to $102 thousand for substance abuse treatment, behavioral health services, and integrated care coordination in Phoenix and Mesa, Arizona. On the grant side, Community Bridges received a $4.47 million Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Program grant (CFDA 64.033) from the Department of Veterans Affairs for October 2025 through September 2026, providing outreach, case management, benefit navigation, and temporary financial assistance to very low-income veteran families. The organization also acts as a grant recipient under the HUD Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267), with multiple awards in fiscal 2025 and 2026 totaling $4.5 million for permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and supportive services across Arizona.

Customer concentration remains heavily weighted toward HUD's Continuum of Care program (63 awards, covering 74% of award count) and the Indian Health Service (21 awards, $8 million combined potential value). The Department of Veterans Affairs anchors another material tranche (16 awards), with SAMHSA contributing six to five awards in behavioral health and substance abuse programming. The ranking by award count versus potential value tracks closely, though IHS dominates dollars while HUD dominates volume. Community Bridges places task orders under two primary parent vehicles: an IHS indefinite delivery contract (10 task orders, $243 thousand combined potential value) and a second HHS contract (8 task orders, $544 thousand combined potential value).

In its grant sub-recipient role, Community Bridges functions under HUD CoC and SAMHSA funding passed through Arizona Department of Housing, Arizona Department of Economic Security, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, Pima County, City of Phoenix, and the District of Columbia. Representative sub-awards include rapid rehousing rental assistance in Cochise and Gila counties, permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals with mental illness or substance use disorders, emergency shelter operations, outreach and engagement services for homeless adults, and mobile crisis response teams. A $4.5 million SAMHSA grant to Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (awarded September 2022) supported Community Bridges' delivery of targeted outreach and engagement through peer support navigators to high-frequency homeless service users in Maricopa County, integrating housing-first and harm-reduction practices.

Activity data shows a growth trajectory through 2024 (27 awards in 2023, 25 in 2024), with a decline to 15 awards in 2025 and only two awards recorded so far in 2026. Ten awards carrying a combined potential value of $88 thousand face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months. The organization's service footprint spans Arizona's Maricopa, Pima, Cochise, and Gila counties, with administrative and operational presence in Phoenix, Mesa, and Tucson. NAICS concentration reflects this mission: 20 awards in Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities and ten in Medical—Other, with PSC distribution split between Medical-Managed Healthcare (11 awards) and Medical-Other (10 awards).